A Simple Practice for Finding Light in the Dark
Helping Kids Remain Calm When the World Seems Scary
Given the wildfires, Covid variants, hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes and periods of social unrest that abound these days, the world can feel like a scary place. Use this quick meditation to help find comfort during sleepless nights.
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The Unlived Lives of Parents
A Mindful Exercise for Healing Old Wounds
Becoming a parent gives us a chance to grow by attending to old wounds, including many that we may have forgotten. The aim is not to deny our history, but to understand it and develop a new relationship with it, bringing self-compassion to ourselves in those moments when we lose it. Here's a seven-step process that can help.
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Compassion During Quarantine
A Simple Practice for Our Clients and Ourselves
By Susan Pollak - I particularly like the suggestion to use the time we spend washing our hands during this pandemic to build up mindful compassion in ourselves. So, rather than sing the rather insipid “Happy Birthday to Me” song for 20 seconds, why not repeat these compassion phrases instead? I’m finding that this simple version helps my clients feel more connected and less helpless as they go through their day.
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Self-Compassion for Painful Emotions
An Eight-Step Practice for Parents
By Susan Pollak - Often when we have an intense emotion, we respond to it as a call to action. We feel we have to “do” something. Yet emotions reveal important information, and they’re here for a reason. It’s good to get curious about them, to notice them, to allow ourselves to feel them in the body, rather than push them away. Here's an eight-step process for doing so.
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Mindfulness and Compassion for Clients and Clinicians
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2/1/2017
Authors:
RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD, PSYD
MITCH R ABBLETT, PH.D.
CHRISTOPHER K GERMER, PH.D
SUSAN M. POLLAK, MTS, ED.D.
SUSAN MORGAN
TOM PEDULLA
JANET SURREY, PH.D.
BILL MORGAN
PAUL R. FULTON
CHARLES W. STYRON, PSY.D.
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CRS001154
Copyright:
2/1/2017
Authors:
RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD, PSYD
MITCH R ABBLETT, PH.D.
CHRISTOPHER K GERMER, PH.D
SUSAN M. POLLAK, MTS, ED.D.
SUSAN MORGAN
TOM PEDULLA
JANET SURREY, PH.D.
BILL MORGAN
PAUL R. FULTON
CHARLES W. STYRON, PSY.D.
Product:
CRS001154
Mindfulness Practices for the Skeptical Client
Four Strategies for Helping Therapy Clients Embrace Mindfulness
Clinicians often make a variety of mistakes while trying to introduce mindfulness, and in my 30 years of trying to figure it out, I’ve made all of them. So let me share some of my bloopers with you in the hopes that you can avoid them. After all, meditation teachers often say, “This practice is simple, but it isn’t easy.” Perhaps the best piece of advice for helping people stay with mindfulness is to have them find something enjoyable in the practice. And above all, do your best to make sure that the practice fits the patient.
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In Consultation
Seven Myths about Meditation: A one-size approach doesn’t fit all
Seven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder.
Magazine Article
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Mindfulness and Compassion for Clients and Clinicians
Copyright:
2/1/2017
Authors:
RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD, PSYD
MITCH R ABBLETT, PH.D.
CHRISTOPHER K GERMER, PH.D
SUSAN M. POLLAK, MTS, ED.D.
SUSAN MORGAN
TOM PEDULLA
JANET SURREY, PH.D.
BILL MORGAN
PAUL R. FULTON
CHARLES W. STYRON, PSY.D.
Product:
CRS001154
Copyright:
2/1/2017
Authors:
RONALD D SIEGEL, PSY.D.
CHRISTOPHER WILLARD, PSYD
MITCH R ABBLETT, PH.D.
CHRISTOPHER K GERMER, PH.D
SUSAN M. POLLAK, MTS, ED.D.
SUSAN MORGAN
TOM PEDULLA
JANET SURREY, PH.D.
BILL MORGAN
PAUL R. FULTON
CHARLES W. STYRON, PSY.D.
Product:
CRS001154
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A Simple Practice for Finding Light in the Dark
Helping Kids Remain Calm When the World Seems Scary
Given the wildfires, Covid variants, hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes and periods of social unrest that abound these days, the world can feel like a scary place. Use this quick meditation to help find comfort during sleepless nights.
Daily Blog
The Unlived Lives of Parents
A Mindful Exercise for Healing Old Wounds
Becoming a parent gives us a chance to grow by attending to old wounds, including many that we may have forgotten. The aim is not to deny our history, but to understand it and develop a new relationship with it, bringing self-compassion to ourselves in those moments when we lose it. Here's a seven-step process that can help.
Daily Blog
Compassion During Quarantine
A Simple Practice for Our Clients and Ourselves
By Susan Pollak - I particularly like the suggestion to use the time we spend washing our hands during this pandemic to build up mindful compassion in ourselves. So, rather than sing the rather insipid “Happy Birthday to Me” song for 20 seconds, why not repeat these compassion phrases instead? I’m finding that this simple version helps my clients feel more connected and less helpless as they go through their day.
Daily Blog
Self-Compassion for Painful Emotions
An Eight-Step Practice for Parents
By Susan Pollak - Often when we have an intense emotion, we respond to it as a call to action. We feel we have to “do” something. Yet emotions reveal important information, and they’re here for a reason. It’s good to get curious about them, to notice them, to allow ourselves to feel them in the body, rather than push them away. Here's an eight-step process for doing so.
Daily Blog
Mindfulness Practices for the Skeptical Client
Four Strategies for Helping Therapy Clients Embrace Mindfulness
Clinicians often make a variety of mistakes while trying to introduce mindfulness, and in my 30 years of trying to figure it out, I’ve made all of them. So let me share some of my bloopers with you in the hopes that you can avoid them. After all, meditation teachers often say, “This practice is simple, but it isn’t easy.” Perhaps the best piece of advice for helping people stay with mindfulness is to have them find something enjoyable in the practice. And above all, do your best to make sure that the practice fits the patient.
Daily Blog
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In Consultation
Seven Myths about Meditation: A one-size approach doesn’t fit all
Seven myths about meditation for clinicians to ponder.
Magazine Article
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Susan M. Pollak, MTS, Ed.D, is a faculty member in psychology at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, where she has taught and supervised since the mid 1990s. She is the president of the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy, a founding member and senior advisor of Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, a psychologist in private clinical practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a Certified Teacher of the MSC program. Dr. Pollak co-taught Mindful Self-Compassion during its early development and she is co-author of Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy www.sittingtogether.com/authors.php, a contributing editor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, 2nd edition. Her blog about Mindfulness and Compassion at Psychology Today is called “The Art of Now”.
